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The HDD is active and every 2 or 3 seconds, it is being accessed. What does Windows do in the background?

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, L55 series, Windows 10 Anniversary OS. This laptop, and my previous Toshiba, stops battery charging at 80%. I imagine this promotes battery longevity. That being the case, is it desirable to regularly run on battery only until it's almost run down, or does that...

William B submitted a new resource: MSI AfterBurner - The Go-To application for GPU teperature / GPU fan control Read more about this resource...

Assume I perform a certain program (in background) which acquires a lot of memory. As an example think of a chkdsk run for an external USB hard disk which uses 6 Gb out of 8 GB physical RAM over a period of hours. This extra ordinary memory consumption slows down the "normal" usage...

Couldn't find a good spot for this so I'll ask here... I have an Epson XP800 inkjet that I bought a few years ago and barely use, maybe 20 pages a year. But that doesn't stop the ink from going away. It's so annoying. Is this normal? Should I move to laser for low volume printing without the...

I have a problem with my computer locking up with the keyboard and mouse unresponsive and a horrible sound coming from the speakers (I think). This has happened 5 times since I upgraded to a SSD. The first two times it happened the computer was really hot. Fan Speed showed that it was in the...

My Quick Launch area is set to Autohide. The problem I have is, after I have booted and used the computer for a while, I can no longer get the cursor to the top of the Quick Launch area. If I go beyond a certain height with the cursor, The Quick Launch area hides.' That means that I can no...

Recently, we released a new feature that provides app usage information to developers in Dev Center. This feature is included in all new Windows 10 (UWP) package submissions and allows developers to view app usage statistics, including user sessions, active users, session length, page views...

Stats being tracked by the website analytic company shows that Windows 10 now accounts for 10% of the overall Windows 10 traffic the company is tracking globally. read more Continue reading...

What happens 1 year after the free Windows 10 update? Do you then need to pay to keep using it?

can i use my windows key on another computer ?

Had a black out here not too long ago, a program was going to reboot the computer prior however never had its chance. Now I can't use the computer any more due to lag, I spent 8 hours the other day fixing a hardware issue that caused latency spikes of 25ms which was effecting the whole system...

Anyone know how long we have to install 10 after it is downloaded? Can we not install it for a year or 2 and then put it in when we are selling the equipment? I will not install it now as I need Windows Media Center on 3 machines.

Back in March, we announced the new Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard – the super portable and ultra-thin lightweight keyboard designed to work with virtually any of your devices. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard is now available at the...

Today's library is one I've seen asked for a number of times on different forums and comments. Best of all, you can get it free and help them flesh it out... Link Removed We are excited to share our Finger Tracking library Aiolos for Kinect v2 with you. At this time, Aiolos is still in an...

I spent a week using the recently updated BLU Win HD LTE Windows Phone handset and this is what I thought about its overall performance. read more Continue reading...

Change of plan - while playing with various Backup options, I learnt how to select a whole lot of folders and to Copy/Paste them onto my external hard drive. As all my save-worthy Folders are only about 60GB, it's easy to backup the whole lot without bothering about Incremental or Differential...

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After restarting my laptop a few weeks ago upon completing a Windows 8.1 Update, I could not access the internet despite being connected to the internet. The connection was not limited and the troubleshooter pointed out that the connection between my access point, router or cable modem and the...

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